After 4 or 5 hours of increasing in strength (though not closer), the whatever contractions I was having late last night and early this morning fizzled... Well.. BOO! I am hoping that it means labor is near... Today I'm going to start back up a RRL tea that's fairly strong (I may look into doing an infusion) and if they start up again, I think I'll take the cimicifuga to help my body regulate them. I thought about it last night but I couldn't get any rest and I didn't want to help my body into full blown labor on no sleep if I could help it. I asked DH to come home today so I can sleep though... I think I got 2.5 or 3 hours... I'm tired!!

Here's to hoping the contractions come back! I feel like I should have helped them along but I was so tired and going into labor so tired might not have been such a great thing...

That happened to me last time, and already a few times this time . I'll have consistent, strong contractions for 2-6 hours, then they stop. And of course it's always at night, so I don't get very good sleep . But, I would rather try to sleep through them, then get up and try to get things moving. With ds I was up from 2am-6am with "false labor" or whatever you want to call it, then slept from about 8am-11am. At 2pm I went into real labor and that lasted until 11:30am the next day. So, while I did fine with everything, I was probably more exhausted than I needed to be when I finally started active labor.

Ugh. 3am onwards, very uncomfortable contractions. When I finally got up at 8am, they got way worse, but naturally I'm making no progress and they're not even in any rhythm. Just screwing with my head making me horrifically miserable.

I am all for natural birth and natural birth processes, but this is just wrong. WRONG. Ugh. I am going to be begging for an induction at this point just to make this stop. I am on day TWELVE and the contractions have gotten WORSE as we've gone along.

I totally know how you feel. I could just scream.

Liz

Wife, and mother to a small fairy, a demolition expert, a special new someone this fall and a small dachshund.

i'm so sorry they stopped... i went through something similar last week... i was excited and getting emotionally ready to meet my baby girl... and then they jsut stopped boo...... i hope the real deal happens for you asap!

I had them from 9am to 9pm, roughly, yesterday. Increasing steadily in frequency and strength. I was just thinking that MAYBE something was really happening when they stopped. Urg... I've only had a couple today, nothing regular. This stuff is so annoying!!

C.- WOHM, CPST Instructor, and all around busy Mama to A.- 02/04, I. 01/07,E. 09/10 and

I'm starting to feel some of that back pressure again and some pressure down in through my pelvis... I'm not sure if I should do anything to try to keep them going this time (if they start up like last night) or just take it as it comes with the stop/start stuff. I'm hoping the cimicifuga helps it focus and make positive changes to my cervix at the very least!

Baby hasn't been as active today but I'll asume the babe is as tired from last night as I was... LOL.